Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Giovannelli, Alessandro

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. Eighteen specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject, from its origins in the work of the ancient Greeks to contemporary developments in the 21st Century. The book reconstructs the history of aesthetics, clearly illustrating the most important attempts to address such crucial issues as the nature of aesthetic judgment, the status of art, and the place of the arts within society. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays the necessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of this fascinating subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441141545
• Artikelnr.: 38299431

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Giovannelli is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lafayette College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction \ 1. Plato
Robert Stecker \ 2. Aristotle
Angela Curran \ 3. Medieval Aesthetics
Gian Carlo Garfagnini \ 4. David Hume
Alan Goldman \ 5. Immanuel Kant
Elisabeth Schellekens \ 6. G.W.F. Hegel
Richard Eldridge \ 7. Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche
Scott Jenkins \ 8. Benedetto Croce and Robin Collingwood
Gary Kemp \ 9. Roger Fry and Clive Bell
Susan Feagin \ 10. John Dewey
Thomas Leddy \ 11. Martin Heidegger
Joseph Shieber \ 12. Walter Benjamin and T.W. Adorno
Gerhard Richter \ 13. Monroe Beardsley
Noël Carroll \14. Nelson Goodman
Alessandro Giovannelli \ 15. Richard A.Wollheim
Malcolm Budd \ 16. Arthur C. Danto
Sondra Bacharach \ 17. Kendall L. Walton
David Davies \ Some Contemporary Developments
Alessandro Giovannelli